Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots working autonomously for nearly a week, with the robots eventually competing against a human intern in a package-sorting task.

Figure AI began livestreaming its Figure 03 humanoid robots on May 13, initially planned as an eight-hour demonstration of the robots autonomously inspecting barcodes and placing packages on a conveyor belt. The company extended the livestream to 24/7 operation after the robots surpassed eight hours without failure, with individual robots taking turns and swapping out for battery recharging.

The robots run on Figure's Helix 02 neural network system, which the company trained on more than 1,000 hours of human motion data and over 200,000 parallel simulated environments. Each robot's AI inference runs entirely onboard the device, though robots are networked together to communicate and request assistance.

On May 17, Figure CEO Brett Adcock organized a 10-hour competition between the robots and Aimé Gérard, a Figure AI intern. The human intern won by sorting 12,924 packages versus the robots' 12,732 packages, working at 2.79 seconds per package compared to the robots' 2.83 seconds per package.

Figure has raised nearly $2 billion from Silicon Valley investors and companies including Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, Amazon, and OpenAI. The company previously deployed Figure 02 robots to the BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina in 2025.